I am always amazed when people bemoan violence in post revolutionary societies, blaming it on a lack of democracy.

Violent mob rule ~IS~ democracy, in its purest form.

That is why the great political scientists, beginning with Plato, regarded democracy as anathema to a truly just and civil society.

Names, like words, mean things. Names both describe and empower. It is no accident that the Democrat Party in America seeks to reduce the Republic to rubble using mobs empowered by ignorance as their wrecking ball.

What you see in the “Arab Spring” is precisely what they have planned for US, once they have stripped the populace of their wealth, national pride and faith in God.

Democracy is the empowerment of those least equipped, either by learning or temperament to wield it.

2 posted on 06/01/2012 1:16:52 AM PDT by shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)

If the arabic countries naively believe democracy means freedom, they are sorely naive in the first place. However they are not going to get freedom until they renounce the dictates of their islamiofascist imams. And that’s just the way it is.

So much, then, for the Arab Spring, which, as I have consistently argued, is an intellectually flawed concept dreamt up by those who conveniently, INTENTIONALLY overlook the forces at play in Arab countries, not the least, the Islamic-Jihadist-Appeaser/Defender/Supporter, Barack Hussein Obama...

It might have been if democracies had given full support from the very beginning instead of sitting by and watching.
The muslim brotherhood watched the pro-democracy movement grow & and then joined in and took over.
That’s when the movement was lost - and the world just watched, as it’s watching in Syria.

“Libya remains in thrall to the warring bands of militiassome of them al-Qaeda acolytes “

This, of course, is bullsh*t from the 30 IQ morons in the British press. This is like claiming that America is in chaos and about to be overrun because the Earth Liberation Front burned an SUV in a car lot.

Osama al-Juwali, Libyas interim defense minister and the most respected militia leader in Libya, has sent out the Libyan army, made of various militia groups and the regular army, to kick Al Queda’s ass when they squeak too loud.

The so-called Muslim militias in Tripoli are composed of roving gangs of 16-year-old punks looking for free stuff, just like our big city Amish here in America. The residents of Tripoli hate their guts, and al-Juwali has deployed troops into Tripoli to spank their butts several times.